The whole point of Tor is to give users a chance to do stuff anonymously. If they have to give a phone number to Twitter, which any agency can pull, then they've sunk their entire purpose of using Tor.

"Oh boo hoo, you have some abusive users".

No.

This is just another cute step to make sure the little people are tracked and those in power just trade favors as VIP's.

Is there any reason why they couldn't just use a burner phone for the account signup and then toss it? If the phone isn't required for subsequent logins then it really isn't accomplishing anything ... It's just security theater.

Is there any reason why they couldn't just use a burner phone for the account signup and then toss it? If the phone isn't required for subsequent logins then it really isn't accomplishing anything ... It's just security theater.

Is there any reason why they couldn't just use a burner phone for the account signup and then toss it? If the phone isn't required for subsequent logins then it really isn't accomplishing anything ... It's just security theater.